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According to the MangaUK Twitter: From what I can tell, Starz (Manga's parent company) have been looking to get rid of their loss making movie studio (Overture) for a while. It's now emerged, following a failed management buyout of Overture, that all of Starz Media (which includes Overture...

The previous release used the original version. I would be amazed if the Anime Legends release was different. AFAIK Final Plus hasn't been released over here, although it is out in R1.

As Jayme says above, their specialism is selling Newspapers, Magazines and Stationary, particularly in smaller towns and airports/train stations where they don't have much competition. They were really struggling at one point though, but appear to have (somehow) turned things around since...

The Amazon listing for Blood is wrong. There can't be (and isn't) a separate Japanese track on the disk, because the Japanese language and the English language versions of the movie are identical. The dialogue in Blood is mainly English with some Japanese depending on the character that is...

In this case the new company appears to be owned by Ledford's lawyer! Actually, I didn't realise this until I read the ANN editorial on the subject, but ADV transferred their secured debt to the company that holds all their old licenses (i.e. AEsir Holdings). Presumably, the licenses will act as...

There is a big enough player: namely Manga UK. The difference between them and these two companies is that Manga are owned by a company the same size as (if not larger than) the two Japanese companies combined. Whereas, Kaze and Anime Virtual are both independent companies, and a lot smaller...

Those two licenses aren't owned by ADV. Like the recent CPM rescues, they're owned by an unrelated company called Sentai Filmworks. As such, it's almost certain that 'Section 23 Films', one of the new companies mentioned in the ANN article, will re-release them in the near future. EDIT: Just...

Actually this news isn't that significant at all. They'd already abandoned the ADV name for new releases. Today's news is just a bunch of legal maneuvers to clear the debt they built up during their troubles over the past few years. All they're doing is reorganising in preparation for putting...

It's not that our market is hard to grasp compared to France or Germany, it's just that Manga Entertainment aren't for sale. Viz have been looking to expand their presence in Europe for some time, but they've been doing this by working with the existing European anime companies rather than...

Quite, nowhere in the UK offers 42% off RRP as a standard discount for anime, particularly on Beez Discs. That insanely high level of discounting is the main reason DVD Pacific is still cheap, even at current exchange rates. Having said that Beez are charging too much for these sets. £35...

Actually, Anime-on-line are now listing Darker than Black and Claymore as 2 disc sets with a RRP of £19.99 like the Death Note releases. The reason for the confusion for these two shows is because they're probably contractually obliged to release both shows as singles, even though they don't...

On their website 4Digital list the run time for vol 1 as 130 minutes, which translates to 3 episodes per disc.

The real killer with Right Stuf are the security checks for new international customers rather than the shipping charges, as their shipping charges are nowhere near as bad as they used to be. TRSI require a scan of some ID and both sides of your Credit Card before accepting first time orders...

No, not yet. According to Matt Greenfield, one of their founders, they're still alive and negotiating for licenses. Some of those may be existing licenses though, as there are a number of Sojitz titles missing from the list of titles acquired by Funimation most notably 5cm per Second and Kurau...

It was recently announced that they'll be releasing a Star Wars: Clone Wars CGI movie this summer before the new CGI cartoon series premieries in the autumn. As for the release dates for the new Star Wars film and the DBZ films clashed, DBZ was postponed until the next suitable release slot...